#painting

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#forever #known #mind #paintings #seen

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#bad #bad choices #choices #grow #help

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. ↗

— Alice Miller

#burst #even #forth #good #help

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#barely #beautiful #beautiful paintings #beautiful things #because

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#art #bourgeois #came #civil #civil wars

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. ↗

— Robert Musil

#cast #existence #good #optical #our

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#every #every time #experience #i #like

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

#painting #silent #speaks

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#because #changes #destroying #etc #fear

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#contact #easy #give #give and take #harmony